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Judge overseeing Georgia election interference case dismisses some of charges against Trump

By The Associated Press on March 13, 2024.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks, March 9, 2024, in Rome, Ga. A federal judge on Tuesday, March 12, approved the $92 million bond put up by Trump to ensure that writer E. Jean Carroll will receive a jury award for his verbal attacks against her if it survives appeals. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

ATLANTA (AP) – The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case has dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump, but others remain.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote Wednesday in an order that six of the charges in the indictment must be quashed, including three against Trump. But the order leave intact many other charges in the indictment and the judge wrote that prosecutors could seek a new indictment on the charges he dismissed.

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